Finished reading the first of Ian W. Toll’s trilogy on World War II, Pacific Crucible. Takes the reader from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of the Midway. Puts you right there — on the ship, in the air. From both sides of the conflict.
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All four car crash thieves < age 15
Monday 06-20-22 at 7:54 p.m. — An off-duty police officer called the Dane County 911 Center to report a black, Kia SUV being driven recklessly on Seven Nations Drive in Madison WI. The SUV was seen doing burnouts and nearly striking parked cars on the street. While officers were en route to investigate the reckless driving complaint, the 911 Center started receiving calls about a rollover crash, involving this same SUV, in the 2900 block of Foxwood Trail.
The SUV struck an unoccupied van which caused the SUV to rollover. The SUV and the van sustained severe damage. All of the occupants of the rollover SUV fled on foot prior to police arrival. Police located and detained four suspects near Moorland Road and Fell Road. The 2017 Kia Sportage had been stolen from a parking lot on Moorland Road. The owner of the Kia SUV became aware of the theft of her vehicle around the same time as the crash when a neighbor stopped by to return her driver’s license and other abandoned property he found in the parking lot.
The ignition key was still in the victim’s possession, however, the suspects were able to manipulate the steering column and steal the vehicle without a key. Excellent teamwork led to the arrest of all four suspects involved in the incident. All four suspects are juveniles under the age of 15 year old. None of the suspects were injured.
At 4 in the morning, passenger left to bleed
This morning 06-21-22 at 4:07 am a stolen black Jeep crashed in front of a house in the Greentree neighborhood on Madison’s SW side. Homeowner reports the driver got out and ran away immediately, leaving the passenger behind. “The passenger was not as lucky. The airbag failed to deploy and he went into the windshield and was bleeding profusely.” (Photos here.)
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It takes courage
Volodymyr Zelensky
People of Ukraine
Finland and Sweden
President Andrzej Duda of Poland
Mike Pence “An American Hero”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
Bill Maher
Joe Manchin
Liz Cheney
Elon Musk
Poland and the Czechs
Mike Koval
Speaker Robin Vos
Tommy Thompson
Dave Cieslewicz
Boris Johnson
FdL Co. GOP chair Rohn Bishop
Mitch McConnell
Dave Chappelle
Ricky Gervais
Mitt Romney
Kaleem Caire
William Barr
Brett Kavanaugh
Who we missing?
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“Trump tried to steal an election
… and, so far, none of these defenders have mounted a serious defense against the charge. Instead, they carp about the lack of Trump defenders on the committee. As far as it goes, it’s a fair complaint. It just doesn’t go very far. Heck, even Donald Trump blames Kevin McCarthy for it. But there’s nothing stopping the carpers from offering a defense on TV or outside the hearing room.” — Jonah Goldberg.
How did Mike Pence become a RINO?
Gerard Baker in the Wall Street Journal
 :“The stolen-election theory carries many of the requisite concoctions of all fabricated conspiracies. But none are as implausible as the premise that the people who stopped Mr. Trump from claiming his rightful re-election were all sinister figures conspiring to hand the reins of power to the illegitimate Joe Biden.
“Because it hasn’t been Adam Schiff and his comrades who have made the most effective case against Donald Trump. It has been Mr. Trump’s own, handpicked people. Think about the list of conspirators that you would have to conclude had somehow become late-convert enemies of Mr. Trump (and American democracy) to believe the former President’s story.
“Mike Pence, impeccable servant of the Republican Party, loyal (crueler observers might say servile) supporter of the former President, who sometime between Nov. 3 and Jan. 6 became a notorious RINO and traitor.
“William Barr, perhaps the most effective defender of Mr. Trump through the mostly manufactured controversies of his term, but who somehow became a double agent for Mr. Biden after the election.
“Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, who stood down Stacey Abrams’s race-baiting charges of a stolen election himself and proved himself a strong conservative in office but somehow plotted with fellow Republicans in the state to confirm a fraudulent victory for his political opponents.”
Get your shine box
Tom Nichols in The Atlantic Daily:
“The January 6 committee, however, deserves a great deal of credit for illuminating the dangerous mediocrities on whom Trump relied for his mischief — the men and women who were certain that their moment had finally arrived. These people — call them the Third String —t hought that they were finally going to The Show, and they were going to burn the Constitution if that’s what it took to stay there.
“Consider, for example, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a minor Justice Department official who sought to oust his own boss and get Trump to make him the attorney general, after which Clark would try to overturn the election results. … Clark got his comeuppance in a meeting in the Oval Office when Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue warned Trump that any such appointment would lead to mass resignations, and told Clark: “You’re an environmental lawyer. How about you go back to your office, and we’ll call you when there’s an oil spill.”
And then there’s John Eastman …
Ann Coulter on 2000 Mules
First, the movie doesn’t show what it says it shows.
• Cellphone tracking isn’t precise enough to distinguish between liberal activists stuffing drop boxes, and store owners, police officers, delivery men and others who have perfectly legitimate reasons to be within a few yards of the same drop box every day.
• In all five battleground states D’Souza considers, it is perfectly legal for third parties to drop off ballots for others, with varying degrees of lenience. …
• Even if every cellphone dot represented a left-wing organizer illegally dropping off another person’s ballot, that still wouldn’t make the ballot invalid. A legal ballot can be illegally delivered, although the guy who delivered it might be in trouble. — (More here.)
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Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
Monday, December 7, A Day Of Infamy. marks the 79th anniversary of the Jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Funny how the names Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada have particular meaning all these many years later. May God bless the memory of those who were killed that day as well as the survivors, who grow fewer and fewer with each passing year.
I cannot begin to imagine what they must think of the nation as it is today, considering what they sacrificed so much for in trying to preserve it. The irony is beyond tragic that subsequent generations of their progeny are now actively embracing essentially the same ideology which that generation fought and died to protect them against. But here we are. (H/T: J.J. Sefton)
Unlike another “good” Democrat, … FDR, who locked up Japanese-Americans because of their race, … at least we’re not locking up Conservatives. Yet.
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As a species, we are not highly evolved.
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I think rounding up the Japanese was then California’s governor Earl Warren’s idea.
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Let’s see, Dec 7… rings a bell. Anniversary of something. Hmmm, let me look at Drudge report: 17 articles about Covid, not one mention of Pearl Harbor. Let me look at other main stream media outlets… hmmm, nothing about one of the most important dates in US history. Sad. Does anyone question the desire of Big Media to steer the narative?
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Front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today has a prominent article “The Last One Left”. Compelling narrative by a survivor from Wisconsin.
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Thanks Kooter, nice catch.
It is imperative for the creation of a news Network devoted to truth, reality, and the conservative perspective, along with new social media platforms that don’t selectively silence truth, reality, and the conservative perspective.
Dinesh D’Souza suggested to Trump that he create a news Network that would be a counter narrative to the smug, lying, deceiving, and ideologically driven MSM.
If done well would be a smashing success.
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The USS Liberty, Memory eternal. https://www.trunews.com/stream/six-day-war-massacre-uss-liberty-veterans-reveal-truth-about-israeli-attack-part-1
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Toll’s trilogy is one of the best I’ve read. Writes so well, plus had access to long (too long?) classified docs. Gotta luv that a short time, relatively speaking, after Pearl Harbor, we kicked big-time butt at Midway.
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Six months from Pearl Harbor to Midway.
Imagine.
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Had Japan NOT made the critical error of leaving aircraft repair hangars and fuel storage facilities intact, it’s been a whole different ball game!
Anywho, coupla months before Midway, The Gotch’s Dear late FIL (Colonel/USAF/Ret) trained some of the B-25 Mitchell aircraft pilots who participated in The Doolittle Raid.
The Gotch
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Recommend “The Second World Wars,” Victor Davis Hanson, which puts together the whole picture unlike any other histories I’ve ever read.
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And the oil tank farms.
Admiral Yamamoto’s words come to mind when we look at the Democrats/MSM/Washington Party currently;
“I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
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Thank god we had a president (a democrat) who rallied the nation and mobilized a force to defeat those responsible for the attack on Peral Harbor, unlike to day where as many Americans are dying
everyday as on this day of infamy because a president (republican) rolled over for the enemy.
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You mean the same POTUS that allowed Pearl Harbor to get attacked, with the attendant death and destruction, to do an end around the Neutrality Acts AND put NOT ONLY children, but adults and the elderly in CAGES…THAT President…..?
Ah Lefty; so MUCH crippling hypocrisy, so little time!
The Gotch
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For what enemy has President Trump rolled over? As for COVID, it is damn near a miracle that a vaccine is in the pipeline so soon? Contrast that to the polio vaccine, which took decades.
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Can miracles be unsafe and dangerous?
Beware bigly of the *vaccine*that took months to develop instead of the usual 10-20yrs for this type of vaccine.
We don’t need no stinkin vaccine.
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